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A rare snapshot of life in women’s prisons which describes food as a socio-cultural experience. Refreshingly new for penal observers and of interest to women’s support groups everywhere. Resourceful, …

"Night and Day" by Virginia Woolf is set in Edwardian England and explores the intricate dynamics of romantic relationships, marriage, and individuality. The novel revolves around four …

Intellectual disability is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors. With the …

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world’s population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned …

A collection of essays that offers “a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of the state in human subjects research” (Journal of the History of Biology). Though notoriously …

It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures …

This book is among the first to use a ‘media events’ framework to examine China»s Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China»s media events through the par …

This title was first published in 2003. This volume contains essays by prominent commentators on topics in commercial law. It addresses the increasing harmonization of international commercial law …

This hugely popular textbook has established itself as the topically organized textbook teachers and researchers trust for the most up-to-date perspectives on child and adolescent development.  …

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based o …